keren · horn

What it means

keren (קֶרֶן) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “horn”.

(Aramaic): the horn of an animal; also a horn for sound. In visions it stands for a power or a king. The same word as the Hebrew "keren".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A horn; in visions, kings or powers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• horn ×9
• horns ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Daniel 3:5

  at the moment that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, the bagpipe, and every kind of music, you will fall down and bow down to the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

• Daniel 3:7

  Because of this, at that time, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages were falling down and bowing down to the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

• Daniel 3:10

  You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and bow down to the image of gold;

• Daniel 3:15

  Now if you are ready at the moment that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the zither, the sambuca, the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and bow down to the image that I made, good; but if you do not bow down, at that very moment you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of fire blazing; and who is the Elah who will deliver you from my hands?”

• Daniel 7:7

  After this I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great teeth of iron; it devoured and crushed, and the rest it trampled with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.

• Daniel 7:8

  I was considering the horns, and look, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted from before it; and look, eyes like the eyes of a man were in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

• Daniel 7:11

  I was looking then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking; I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning of fire.

• Daniel 7:20

  and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other that came up, and before which three fell, — that horn had eyes and a mouth speaking great things, and its appearance was greater than its companions.

• Daniel 7:21

  I was looking, and that horn was making war with the saints and prevailing over them,

• Daniel 7:24

  And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them; and he will be different from the former ones, and three kings he will bring low.

And 4 more times.